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What Matters Most On Friday, October 6, 2017

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'We were supposed to be celebrating your 70th birthday now'

Reuven Schmerling, murdered in Kafr Qassem, is laid to rest

Over 1,000 attend funeral, recall ‘a man of kindness’ who ‘believed in every human being’; family certain he was victim of terrorism

Mourners attend the funeral of Reuben Schmerling (inset) in the West Bank settlement of Elkana on October 6, 2017. (Dani Sitron)

Reuven Schmerling, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Elkana, who was murdered and his body discovered in a storage facility in the Israeli Arab town of Kafr Qassem, October 4, 2017. (Courtesy)

Family of Jewish man murdered in Kafr Qassem convinced it was terrorism

One of the t-shirts that Reuven Schmerling's family had designed for his 70th birthday party that was supposed to be held on Thursday October 5, 2017. The shirt reads "Sign that you're young -- Celebrating 70 for Grandpa 'Moti'"

PM vows to bring to justice those behind murder of Jewish man in Kafr Qassem

Nuclear disarmament group ICAN executive director Beatrice Fihn (L) and member of the steering committee Grethe Ostern celebrate with champagne after ICAN won the Nobel Peace Prize for its decade-long campaign to rid the world of the atomic bomb as nuclear-fueled crises swirl over North Korea and Iran, on October 6, 2017 in Geneva. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)

Nobel winners say ‘moment is now’ to ban nuclear weapons

By AFP

Disarmament group ICAN dedicates prize to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, says ‘all nations should reject these weapons completely’

The chairwoman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Berit Reiss-Andersen, announces on October 06, 2017 in Oslo, that the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize goes to the nuclear disarmament group ICAN for its decade-long campaign to rid the world of the atomic bomb as nuclear-fuelled crises swirl over North Korea and Iran. (AFP PHOTO / NTB Scanpix / Heiko JUNGE )

Anti-nuclear campaign ICAN wins Nobel Peace Prize

By Patrick Galey and ToI Staff

In this picture taken on September 13, 2017, activists of the International campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) wear masks of US President Donald Trump (R) and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un as they demonstrate in front of the US embassy in Berlin. (AFP/dpa/Britta Pedersen)

ICAN: Staunch campaigners for an end to nuclear weapons

In this Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017 photo, a bulldozer removes sand at Tel Es-Sakan hill, south of Gaza City. Palestinian and French archaeologists began excavating Gaza’s earliest archaeological site nearly 20 years ago; unearthing what they believe is a rare 4,500-year-old Bronze Age settlement. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

In Gaza, Hamas levels an ancient Canaanite archaeological treasure

Some Palestinian workers permitted to enter Israel amid holiday closure

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Omaha schools nix Palestinian talk amid concern Jewish students bullied

By AP and ToI Staff

Thousands retrace biblical route in West Bank marathon

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Detail from a page of Gil-ad Shaer's recovered diary. (Courtesy)

'What we got was a very meaningful and powerful gift'

Murdered teen Gil-ad Shaer’s diary ‘miraculously’ returned to grieving parents

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Bereaved mother Bat-Galim Shaer pens memoir, includes excerpts from son’s secret writings that survived Palestinian terrorist kidnappers’ burned car

Security versus the shekel

By Joshua Davidovich

Untitled painting by Adolf Hitler exhibited in Italy's Museum of Salo, October, 2017. (Museo Del Follia)

Painting by Hitler at Italian museum attacked by screwdriver-wielding man

An anti-Semitic flier threatening Jews that was sent to a kosher bakery in Brooklyn. (Courtesy: Dov Hikind)

Threatening anti-Semitic flier sent to Brooklyn kosher bakery

By JTA

Illustrative: A swastika spray-painted at a playground in Lakewood, New Jersey, August 2016. (AP)

Anti-Semitic graffiti discovered on Minnesota junior high school

By JTA

Illustrative image of Interior view of Göteborg-Landvetter airport on October 15, 2011. (CC BY-SA Andrzej Otrębski, Wikimedia commons)

German man stopped at Swedish airport with ‘dangerous element’

By AP

Police refuse to comment on report that substance was explosive chemical compound TATP often used by Islamic extremists

Pilgrims to Uman celebrating at the grave of Rebbe Nachman, September 7, 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90/via JTA)

Ukraine arrests 3 alleged terrorists accused of targeting Jews in Uman

By JTA

US President Donald Trump smiles as Defense Secretary James Mattis (C) looks on during a meeting with senior military leaders at the White House on October 5, 2017.(AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Flanked by military leaders, Trump talks of ‘calm before the storm’

US president summons reporters for surprise photo shoot; makes foreboding comment, but declines to elaborate

Iran vice president’s brother arrested

By AFP

Trump to decertify Iran nuke deal, impose ‘harsh sanctions’ on IRGC

By ToI Staff and AP

In Moscow, Saudi king slams Iran, signs billion dollar defense, energy deals

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Crime scene tape surrounds the Mandalay Hotel (background) after a gunman killed at least 58 people and wounded more than 500 others when he opened fire on a country music concert in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 2, 2017. (AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON)

US hotels mull bolstering security after Las Vegas shooting

By Kelvin Chan and DAVID KOENIG

They can look to hotels like Israel’s King David that reportedly uses infrared cameras, bomb-searching robots in sewers and aircon that can thwart a poison gas attack

Part of Reno Ave. near South Las Vegas Blvd is blocked with police tape in the aftermath of a mass shooting Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, in Las Vegas. (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Did the Las Vegas gunman target other music festivals?

By Ken Ritter, MICHAEL BALSAMO and SADIE GURMAN

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second left, and his wife Sara, second right, tour in Tel Gezer and Magshimim Forest, together with their sons, Yair, right, and Avner, left, during the holiday of Sukkot, October 21, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO/ File)

Bibi B?

A younger Netanyahu for prime minister? ‘I hope not,’ says Bibi

By Alexander Fulbright

Amid speculation Yair Netanyahu seeks to follow father’s footsteps, PM says he has expressed his misgivings, calls politics ‘a very tough life’

From left: Petty Officer Nathan Bruckenthal on a coalition ship during his 2003 Iraq deployment; Third Class Cadet Quinn Levy; Chief Warrant Officer James Todd receiving a blessing from Rabbi Beth Jacowitz Chottiner upon his retirement. (All photos courtesy)

'I’m doing this so America remains free'

The Jews of the US Coast Guard: ‘Always ready’ during hurricane season

By Rich Tenorio

Whether providing disaster relief or rescuing terror victims, these Members of the Tribe are on call with America’s domestic maritime outfit

UNESCO headquarters in Paris, October 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Troubled UNESCO begins picking new leader

By AFP and ToI Staff

Key task for new head of UN cultural body is to regain US funding, suspended over perceived anti-Israel bias

On anti-clown patrol in Hadera (Ben Hartman)

Israeli teens form night patrols as clown panic sweeps country

As the ‘scary clown’ fad hits Israel, a year after it ended in the US, kids in one Israeli seaside town don’t suffer the fools gladly

Several armed teens arrested as Israel’s clown menace continues

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Getting the groove on at the annual Woodstock Revival concert in Jerusalem (Yehuda HaLevy)

Revival of the FittestHippies welcome as Woodstock Festival returns to Jerusalem

By Grace Austin

Iranian Shiite Muslims sit after rubbing mud on their body during the 'Kharrah Mali' (Mud Rubbing) ritual to mark the Ashura religious ceremony in the city of Khorramabad, some 470 kms southwest of Tehran, early in the morning on October 1, 2017. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Earthy traditionMud and mourning in Iran mark death of imam 1,300 years ago

By Eric RANDOLPH

Larry David played democratic candidate Bernie Sanders in a Saturday Night Live skit of the first 2016 Democratic Presidential Debate, October 17, 2015 (Screenshot from YouTube)

Pretty, pretty coolLarry David and Bernie Sanders learn they’re distant cousins, flip out

By Gabe Friedman

Screenshot from a Google presentation on the new Google Earbuds for PIxel phones that can translate in real time in 40 languages. (Screenshot/YouTube)

All earsGoogle earbuds offer real-time translation; Hebrew not included

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A road passing through the South Hebron Hills in the West Bank. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Decaying body found outside Israeli army base in West Bank

Harvey Weinstein attending the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s National Tribute Dinner in Beverly Hills, Calif., March 24, 2015. (Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images, via JTA)

Hollywood bigwig Weinstein takes leave after sexual harassment claims

By Lindsey Bahr

Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah (L) waves from the royal chariot during a procession to mark his golden jubilee of accession to the throne in Bandar Seri Begawan on October 5, 2017. (Roslan Rahman/AFP)

Sultan of blingBrunei monarch marks golden jubilee in style

By Gianrigo Marletta

Yonatan Shiray, now an active combat soldier, in his foxtrotting scene in the award-winning film 'Foxtrot' (Courtesy 'Foxtrot')

The 2017 foreign-language Oscar submission list

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Muslim men attend Friday prayers near Rome's ancient Colosseum on October 21, 2016 to protest against the closure of unofficial mosques. (Gabriel Bouys)

Islam is world’s most common state religion — study

Khaled Almbayed of Syria (2L) and Mathew Leckie of Australia (C) fight for the ball during the 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer match between Syria and Australia at the Hang Jebat Stadium in Malacca on October 5, 2017. (AFP PHOTO/MOHD RASFAN)

Soccer: Disputed penalty lifts Syria World Cup hopes

Tal Silberstein, an adviser to Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern, arrives at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on August 14, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

Israeli adviser behind anti-Semitic political campaign in Austria

By AP

Bernard-Henri Lévy at Tel Aviv University in 2011. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

NY film screening on Kurdish fighters sells out despite terror threat

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A monumental problem

How to redirect the evil inclination for idol worship that still dances among us

I gave a scam-artist $200

Jews are a family, so of course I said I’d help out

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